The press and standard. [volume] (Walterboro, S.C.) 1890-current, August 28, 1907, Image 2

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Cotttfh Department, Charleston, 8. C. We ha\e arranged to handle cotton to Ix-st advantage arui solicit coru^ij^nments. We give special attention to handling Staple Cotton, \ iz. “Allen Seed” ‘ Kloradora and otherf of this grade. Sterling Wedding Presents Swasteka JLucky Charm Hatpins, etc., at • a J. i. V1STEHBER6, Jeweler. WALTERBOKO, 8. C. Fine’repair work a Specialty. (Next to C. D. May’s Sal. table). t \ OF ALL KINS DO NF AT Gbe press anfc> Stanbarb. We^ave jnst received a new stock of letter and note- paper, bill beads and statements, enve lopes of all kinds ard colors. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED Prices reasonable which we will gladly quote yod. Blank legal forms of all kinds always carried in stock. Call and see us when in town. ************************** w * ■K V w «% A A A A A A A A • • .OUR • • Pates. A A A A A A ■ * 1 » * THE PRESS AND STANDARD * W11H EACH OK THE FOL- / » LOWING ONE YEAR * M The Semi-Weekly News and Courier, $1.50 W vt The Atlanta Constitution, Map and 3 flw tt Magazines, » 2.00 * tt The Southern Cultivator, 1.50 M A V — The Home and Farm, i*35 * ■s '« * The Industrious Hen, i-*S w The Cotton Journal and $1000 Acci- * w VA dent Policy 2.50 kt tt The New Idea^Woman’s Magazine, ... i-35 8 WA The Branchville Journal 1.5° A ************************** Scientific Rocdm*k;rs Sati*ficd With Its Practicability—Invantor of High way Improving Dcvica Tails How to Build It—Kind of Wood to Use. [Oipyrijfht, by I). V.’ard Klng-i The fuint- of/ tin? 1 >i; or King dray }h iH'coiuiuy worlilv.ido. Inqui- rlt-s <*oir<*eniln^ It havo l uinf , t • rue from .yuttrulia, Porto Itica, Honolulu. Canada. Parts and elsewhere. Here in our own country there Is no longer auj - question concerning the nnTlts of the King system of road dragging Six state** have put “drng laws" on their statute books, while the scientific roadmaken* of most states, now’ saJIshe^jof its practicatdllty. are Indorsing the^inethod and urging the use of the drag. The spilt log drirg is so exceedingly simple that most men fec-l able to Im prove It and many believe they have «acc from a lO VO u LOS FLAKS OF THE KIXO ROAD DRAG, flnstructlons.—After each rain drive up on* aid* of the wheel track and back on th* other side at least once, with drag In position to throw the earth to the center. Hide on the drag. Haul at an anrle of forty-five degrves. Gradually widen the strip dragged as the road Im prove* To round up th* road better plow a shallow furrow occasionally each aide of the dragged strip and work the loose dirt to the center.] done so. I have no quarrel with those men. For years 1 have been saying that any tool which will smooth the surface of the highway and move a lit tle earth to the center of the road is a good drag. Put I also would remind the reader that I have myself spent a great deal of time years ago trying to Improve the drag and gave it up as Im possible. With all deference to the opinion of others I feel that one might aa well try to Improve an ax or a apade. I have teen and know of a great many different styles of drags. Home are made of one slab with n tongue, others are built in the shape of a V and used with broad end to the front working both sides of the road at once, and ao on. Any one of them la better than no drag and will Im prove the road If properly used. However, I have l>een asked to tell bow to make and use a split log drag, and. with the concessions made above, to Indicate that I am more anxious the road should be cared for than to Insist It must be cared for by any particular style of drag, I will confine myself to my task. for you to do when openiii£ a Ibank*account here is to eee our cashier for iti fori nation The imtu tioir.jf a small busmens needs a bank hc- oount as much as the lar^st firm or corpora tion—ue are invited to make to make this bank their ban km,; home WE CNA HELP YOU IN YOUR BUSINESS tuc cn i of six ' t: ■■ th 7 ' ro- l will 1 c • * hut the fr mt t-luh v. Ill 11*0(1 l »1/0 v. i*li three or four f *t*f* of >■ ttv*l . ... An; t’;t piece v.ill ih». No . . , to *n the fi.it *; el to the ditch o:ij ul t!i • (pir.t sh.b. The Vugtb of the drug v.ill depend on the t *tn tint 1** to W* u*«c*l. For h -rs.- iii.it weigh l..' d ponnuu a Keveu fo.,t d?v.g '> hirg«* cmnigh. T^vo horsox weighing l.T'’u poiinc?** i*;i<’h vvi.i Lliiii- die a nine foot drag. In Other nrti le* of the rcr/es I will try t i explain how to secure the bent results. CALL ON US or WRITE Farmers and Merchants Bank I Est’d ISOS Waltcrboro S. C. Capital and Surplus S22.500 J cottonwood or willow the heavy woods. Having split the log. we are ready to bore the holes. Two points are Impor tant In building a drag K we hope to have It go together shipshape; bore the holes at light angles to the face of the slab across the grain, and ditto length wlae of the grain of the wood. But little difficulty, however. Will be expe rienced even If the botes are hot abso lutely true, for tbs^ Makes can be made a little smaller for the crooked boles and. with careful hedging, they will be all right. Select the best slab to go In front Now. with the flat face to the north the right hand eud of the alab will be the ditch end. Eighteen or twenty Inches from the ditch end of this slab and midway of Its cross sec tion we win bore a two tucb hole. At the other end of the slab and as close to the end ns the strength of the timber will |*ermlt—say three to six Inches—we will bore the second hole. Next stretch a chaik line from center to center of these holes and lH>re the third hole halfway lietween the other two and on the chalk mark. Now we will bring the other slab up close to and liehind the front slab, fiat side to Is preferable to j inches of the first hole we bored, and after carefully adjusting the slabs we can mark for all three hole* on the rear slab. When these holes are bored we will prepare three stakes and slip the slabs on to the stakes (at>out thirty Inches apart) and wedge them se curely. These stakes should be sawed off smoothly In front or they will clog the earth as It drift* along the slab, but the wedges and stake ends may protrude at the rear, where they will save you much time and bother by mutely explalulng exactly how the slalis are held together. The hitch may be a strong wire or chain. A trace chain and one-half Is about the right length. I’ass one cud over the top of the front slab at the rear end and loop It around the stake; the other end should be passed through a hole made for It two or throe inches from the ditch end and at the center of the slab. If forced to use plank, got elm or cypress 2 by 12 of the pFO|*cr length and a 2 by (1 of the same length. Use the 2 by (5 to re-enforce the 2 by 12 lengthwise of Its center, so that thcr* will l»c four Inches In thichness of the wood through which to bore the two v How’s Tin-? W o i fT-r one Hundred DoHnr* UewR.l for uti/ c >■>«* <i ('*ta r rh Unit cannot be ruied i v Halt's CaiaTU ( nrs. I 7 ' J ( b**H*y & i o., Toled *, <> We he an- ■ ‘siMgned, have kii **it F J ti eny for ih- livsf 15 year*. »ud brve him j^r- trctiy houoiwble in all i>ci*iuess t'aua* kroons and flu*iie,la|ly able t>*ciiry out *nv obligations m*da by his firm. Wald- mg Ktnuitu A Marvin, WhoUsale Durig sts. Tohdo. O. Hall’s t’atarrh Uur* i» take Internslly acuna ilnectly u|»ou 'ilia blood and luidoas suriaces oi tne system Testi monials tsnt frus. Price ?5o, per buttle Sold by all l)rog<ists. Take Hall’s Family PU18 for consti pation. the north, but w ith the end slipj>ed i mcii holes. By this arrangement of west to a 2>ofut within three or four t i, e pinnk the shape of the log slab Is I Special Sale I BUILDING SWAMP ROADS. Horatio S. Carlo Tolls of Methods That Hov* Boon Tried. To say Just how best to build A good road or even a fair road over sw&mpy ground is something that no sane road builder will attempt to do. The main reason why Is that there are seldom two swamps alike, and s* what has worked in one place would l*e worth less lu another place. About the only thing 1 can do Is to relate souk things that have been done and let yon take your choice without any guarantee that they will produce a cure In jrourj partk ular jneee of road, says Horatio) S. Earle, state highway commissioner for Michigan. One man had been drawing grtvelf for years. Each year It sank, and the. road was no better than before. He drew cobblestones In the winter time’ and threw them Into the ditches along side of the road. In the spring they; sank. Next winter he did the same* thing. In the spring they sank tome, but not out of sight. The result was he had two walls on either side of bis road, so that the muck could not oo?.c to the side, and there has liefin ho- sinking of his road since. A prominent railroad engineer say)*? that generally it Is best not to break the sod across a swamp, hot to haul Mrs V/ A Black desires to annouDce that daring the month of July she will sell her eutire stock of Sum mer Dress and Millinery Goods st, and The beat form of material for build ing Is the log. The stralghter the log and the stralghter Its grain the better. Other things being equal, I prefer the lightest log. Weight, when needed, can be added to a light drag, but a drng constructed of heavy material cannot be lightened. The weight of the* driver on the drng will generally prove sufficient to do good work. If given my choice I would prefer a log of the sort of wood lu the following list. In the order given: Red cedar, walnot, elm. cypress, soft maple, box elder, with oak. ash and hickory In a class by ] k hetrs'ive« end last on the list. Even Attack.” Symptoms. Soar stomach* > nasty taste in mouth, tick headache, tallow complex- too, the world your enemy. ClUfO. Constipation, inact ive liver, overflow of bile Into the system. Rollof. Treatment for two nights before retiring with ^ s—imoteim One a night, don’t worry, sleep erfd NatoreH do the rent* A5 ESPECIAL FEATURE OF THIS SALE WILL BE A <• BARGAIN^ COUNTER ota which will be displayed goods that will be sold at venr reduced priuea. Now is the time to secure bar gains in bummer Wearables. During July at MRS. W. A. BLACK’S I I on the earth to build up your turnpike, 1 first making s mat of trees and placing your earth on top of this mat. The trees should be from one and one-half Inches to three lochea in diameter. He rays he built a railroad grade in thl* way across a swamp which was so- soft that be could run a pole down thirty feet by hand, and the grade ha# stayed up without any trouble for over ten years. Another man, tneteed of building a corduroy road, took the logs and drovr them down endwise beside the road, using logs sixteen feet long. He drove them with a hand pile driver made out of an elm butt with three handlea. a** that three men could use It These logs kept the muck from ooslng to the side and proved very satisfactory. Where you have a soft spot In your road It can often l*e Improved by put ting a flayer of swale grass or rye straw orhay over It and then putting your gravel .on top of that. The hfljr or straw Is not a water carrier and will generally hold up the grade until the gravel has a chance to pack, after which there will be no further trouble. Read the advertisement this week in The Pres3 and Standard, and tots today. Retd the advertisement this week in This Press and Standard, and vote to day. 11,000.00 Accident Insurance Policy iTHE COTTON JOURNAL OF ATLANTA GK\ i mad a mss ArrfSwt 1—aiRsoe Folios lor q— raw with ae The Cotton Journal, j» The Press and Standard —AND— 1000—— Accident Insurance Policy J AUJfor One Year for -$2.50- * , . . t Subscriptions uken at this office,